I like how the Raknarok story leaves it totally
open for Christianity to step in.. Baldr is the God who emerges and there's 2 humans left to procreate. .. Hmmmmm sounds like the beginning of Genesis to me... Just an opinion though... Great read,for sure...
Good read. As I was reading I also realized how astonishingly similar the story is to a nuclear war. The horn being warning sirens, the explosions fro the bombs are Surt's flames, earthquakes are the bombs droping, and the long winter being a nuclear one. It just seems the story is an out of order nuclear war... Intiresting.
The reason that Ragnarok ends queued to welcome Christianity is because the majority of its description was written by a Christian Skald, 200 years after his ancestors converted to Christianity. One can imagine that the Ragnarok story is highly influenced by Snori Sturluson's Christian worldview.
Snorri does that. My kindle found me a book don't know if It's any good haven't read it ,but the author says hes rewritten it out with the Christian overtone....Henry Adams Bellow is the mans name.... It's on my list to read,but after Jotunbok,which if anyone's read it is a slow thoughtful read..If anyone gets to it please post a review..
Henry Adams Bellows did a translation of the Poetic Edda, not the Prose. While it's good, he overdoes it in regards to cherry picking things that may or may not belong. That actually makes the Thorpe Edda more original and more reliable, regardless of its Christian overtones.
I good way to understand the Heathen Worldview is to read as many Icelandic Sagas as you can. Familiarize with the personality of the main characters, and if you're reading a verse somewhere else in the lore that may smell of Christianity, ask yourself, what would those characters in the sagas have done or said.
